Clockstoppers
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| Clockstoppers | |
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 Clockstoppers promotional poster |
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| Directed by | Jonathan Frakes |
| Produced by | Gale Anne Hurd Julia Pistor |
| Written by | Rob Hedden |
| Starring | Jesse Bradford Paula Garcés French Stewart |
| Music by | Jamshied Sharifi |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | March 29, 2002 (USA) |
| Running time | 94 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $26,000,000 |
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Clockstoppers is a 2002 film produced by Nickelodeon Movies and released by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Jonathan Frakes and written by Rob Hedden, Andy Hedden, J. David Stem and David N. Weiss.
Taglines:
- Freeze the future.
- What if you had the power to stop time?
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[edit] Storyline
The NSA-funded QT (Quantum Tech) Corporation wants to develop hypertime. After realizing that such a technology could also be used against the USA, the NSA wants all of the research and equipment packed up and ready for pick up Monday morning. The research is farther along than the NSA expected and Henry Gates, the head of QT, is going to use it to take over the world. He is going to use the technology developed thus far to stretch the weekend into enough time to give a brilliant scientist held hostage to fix the remaining glitch in the technology. But he has to deal with a small group of determined teenagers who have accidentally come in to possession of one of the hypertime watches.
[edit] Main cast
- Jesse Bradford as Zak Gibbs
- Paula Garcés as Francesca
- French Stewart as Earl Dopler
- Michael Biehn as Henry Gates
- Garikayi Mutambirwa as Meeker
- Robin Thomas as Dr. Gibbs
- Julia Sweeney as Jenny Gibbs
- Lindze Letherman as Kelly Gibbs
- Ken Jenkins as Agent Moore
[edit] Trivia
- Director Jonathan Frakes makes a cameo appearance in this movie. In the scenes at the Congress of Applied Technology convention, after the protagonists "acquire" some materials, Frakes can be seen in the background chatting with someone while Earl Doppler says, "We just need some place quiet to go to work for a while."
- Henry Gates' name is a reference to Bill Gates, whose middle name is Henry.
- Two blink-182 songs All the Small Things and First Date appear in the movie.
- One of the Nickelodeon movies to use strong profanity.
- Radio Shack was mentioned before the scene where Zak, Francesca, and Doppler steal the technical equipment to fix the watch. The actual line is "Yeah, but we're gonna' need some stuff that you can't get at Radio Shack.
- The concept of the film is similar to an episode of the popular 1980s children's animated series DuckTales titled Time Teasers.
- It references eBay a lot.
- First Nickelodeon movie to focus on teens.
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